Ryan Royal from Colorado Springs Truck 8 sent in this interesting door from their first due. He wanted to make sure that the crew from Truck 8 and Engine 8 got credit for the find. The door is in a 160′ by 30′ commercial building that sits among many highly secured buildings in a high crime rate area. Apparently, as a result of multiple break-ins at this building, the owner got pretty creative. The photo below is the back door of this building. Remember, the building is 160×30 so the building only has two doors, Side A, and Side C. All the windows in this building had been bricked over, so it is fairly reasonable to say that this door may have to be opened.
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First, thanks for sending that in. Great pictures.
I am also VERY glad the shop owners in my area do not view this website. For the area I work, this would be a great door for the shop owners. For us, not so much.
Wow, so many items to take care of. I would just use the charge of C4 and blow the door (like in the movie “Towering Inferno” – LOL)
Stay safe and remember to use a long fuse on the C4 or you might loose a finger.
I think that it is safe to say that, ‘high crime’ is the understatement of the year! OV to Chauffeur, bring me chains and a dump truck, and some det cord, K.
Looks like a death trap for us, and needless to say we are going to need more than the irons to force this.
Getting through each of the obstacles isn’t what concerns me here….it’s the time involved in discovering each obstacle. You’d be spending time on gaping the door before you discovered not one but three points which have to be breached. You’d probably start by conventional methods until you discovered the drop bars….unless you had a rabbit tool. Then I’d say it’s time for the rotary saw in the gap between the frame and door. Three cuts in total. Force the door open then either single cuts on the left or right of each padlock.
Barring that idea I’d revert to one of the other posts made regarding the steel plate door…..truck and chains!!….lol.
This also reinforces the basics before making entry….someone better do a damn good size up before sending a crew inside cause forcing this door ain’t gonna be something you want to remember if you need to get in cause PASS alarms are going off.
Ghetto vault of the year award for sure.
What kind of store was this, first national bank of tha hood?
At least it was nice of him to put ” Door Is Blo”
attack the bricked windows with a battering ram or masonry blade. prob your best bet.
ps, i understand the joke, but C4 is inert unless activated by electrical contact ;). no fuse.
Basically, if a door says “DOOR IS BLO..”, don’t even try it.
Mark that page in your pre-plan book with a brite piece of paper and when you get called there, LET THAT MOTHA BURN!
Wow… okay and I thought I had some ghetto places in my district! What are they keeping in there that is so important?! Or for that matter wtf is going on in the Springs that requires this…
The guy just loves that dam trash can, kids keep stealing the darn thing!
“DOOR IS BLO”. Forgot to mention that BLO is an acronym that means “Built Like OX”! heh.
Chet
This would be an absolute nightmare of a job breaching this structure! I totally agree with this statement…
“Looks like a death trap for us, and needless to say we are going to need more than the irons to force this…”
I’d be concerned that this is just one of the entry/exit points. How are the rest of the windows and doors secured? A hardened building like this may call for an extra truck or two depending on your normal box (defineatly would in my area). I’d want to be able to dedicate as many truckies as I could to making holes for egress if an interior fight was to ensue.
Firstly, fine job of finding this door in your first due. Effective firefighting is more than just what you do on the scene. Inspections, whether formal or just out looking into bad buildings in one’s district, can be very useful. To be forewarned is to be forearmed.
With that rear door set up like it is, there would be no interior attack, and I would talk to the property owner and let him know that, and that the decision was made by him. By installing that level of theft protection, he has made his bldg too dangerous to us, and he has forfeited any level of fire protection beyond exterior attack. Whatever it is he is trying to protect, is not worth the life of one of our firefighters. Pre-fire it as “Do not enter”.
I enjoy the “what ifs” and “how to’s” discussion on breaching that door, but as a practical matter, knowing how that rear door is and with the bricked up windows, I would hope that we would never put firefighters through that front door with smoke showing.
lol I want to say thanks for this very nice picture. But I doesn’t look stable and did you really weld it? Anyway, thanks for sharing
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